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Transformation Optics That Mimics the System Outside a Schwarzschild Black Hole Transformation optics that mimics the system outside a Schwarzschild black hole Huanyang Chen, 1, a Rong-Xin Miao, 2,3 and Miao Li 2,3, b 1School of Physical Science and Technology, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu 215006, China 2Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, Key Laboratory of Frontiers in Theoretical Physics, Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, People’s Republic of China 3Interdisciplinary Center for Theoretical Study, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China a [email protected] http://ihome.ust.hk/~kenyon b [email protected] Abstract: We applied the transformation optics to mimic a black hole of Schwarzschild form. Similar properties of photon sphere were also found numerically for the metamaterial black hole. Several reduced versions of the black hole systems were proposed for easier implementations. ©2009 Optical Society of America OCIS codes: (160.3918) Metamaterials; (260.2110) Electromagnetic optics; (260.2710) Inhomogeneous optical media; (160.1190) Anisotropic optical materials. References and links 1. U. Leonhardt, “Optical conformal mapping,” Science 312, 1777-1780 (2006). 2. J. B. Pendry, D. Schurig, and D. R. Smith, “Controlling electromagnetic fields,” Science 312, 1780-1782 (2006). 3. D. Schurig, J. J. Mock, B. J. Justice, S. A. Cummer, J. B. Pendry, A. F. Starr, and D. R. Smith, “Metamaterial electromagnetic cloak at microwave frequencies,” Science 314, 977-980 (2006). 4. R. Liu, C. Ji, J. J. Mock, J. Y. Chin, T. J. Cui, D. R. Smith, “Broadband ground-plane cloak,” Science 323, 366-369 (2009). 5. S. Tretyakov, P. Alitalo, O. Luukkonen, and C. Simovski, “Broadband electromagnetic cloaking of long cylindrical objects,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 103905 (2009). 6. J. Valentine, J. 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Lakhtakia, “Towards a metamaterial simulation of a spinning cosmic string,” arXiv: 0911.4163. 19. We have designed a perfectly matched layer (PML) in the far field outside the black hole to mimic such an open system during the simulations. 20. U. Leonhardt and T.G. Philbin, “Quantum optics of spatial transformation media,” J. Opt. A: Pure Appl. Opt. 9, S289 (2007). 21. S. W. Hawking, “Black Hole Explosions,” Nature 248, 30-31 (1974). 1. Introduction Transformation optics [1, 2] is a versatile tool that can be extensively utilized in designing novel wave manipulation devices. With the aid of metamaterials, several kinds of transformation media have been implemented in laboratories, such as reduced (or carpet) cloaks for both microwave [3-5] and optical frequencies [6-8], field rotator [9], transformation media bending wave guide [10], and transmuted Eaton lens [11]. It is surprising that transformation optics can even mimic the cosmic phenomena. Leonhardt and Philbin proposed the “general relativity in electrical engineering” [12] which can be used to design metamaterials mimicking the cosmic optical properties. The corresponding transformation media are usually anisotropic and inhomogeneous materials. Genov et al. [13] suggested a further method to transmute the anisotropic materials into isotropic ones, which suggests a much easier way to implement. An isotropic “optical black hole” was then proposed and studied [13]. Narimanov and Kildishev [14] independently suggested an approach to a broadband absorber from Hamiltonian optics, which was also termed as an effective “optical black hole”. The related materials are isotropic as well, which was later implemented by using nonresonant metamaterial units for microwave frequencies by Cheng and Cui [15]. However, both versions of the optical black hole were not solutions to the Einstein field equations [13, 14]. Hence it is interesting to study how to mimic a real black hole system by using transformation optics and their corresponding properties. In this letter, we will start from the “general relativity in electrical engineering” [12], and use the Schwarzschild metric of a real black hole system (which is a solution to the Einstein field equations) to propose the permittivity and permeability tensors of the related transformation media. With the material parameters obtained, we will simulate wave properties outside the black hole (the Schwarzschild radius), and we are trying to observe the phenomena of “photon sphere”, which is an important clue for the black hole system. Before we go into the details, it should be noted that transformation optics has also been applied to other cosmic problems, such as electromagnetic wormhole [16], de Sitter space [17] and cosmic string [18]. 2. Theory Let us now start from the general form of transformation optics [12], −g g ij εμij== ij ∓ , (1) γ g00 where the ε ij and μ ij are the equivalent material parameters of the transformation media to mimic a space whose metric can be written in the form of ds2 = g dxα dxβ , γ is a ∑αβ αβ determinant of a spatial metric to transform one set of spatial coordinates to another [12]. The Schwarzschild metric of a black hole system is written as, 22GM GM ds2221222=−(1 ) c dt −− (1 )− dr − r d Ω , (2) rc22 rc where G is the gravitational constant, M is the mass of the system, c is the velocity of light in vacuum. With respect to the optical phenomena in the equatorial plane, it is equivalent to consider the metric in circular cylindrical coordinates, LL ds22212222=−(1 ) c dt −− (1 )− dr − r dθ − dz , (3) rr which has the same optical behaviors as that of a real Schwarzschild black hole, and is easier to realize in laboratory than the original three dimensional (3D) case. After some algebraic calculations from Eqs. (1) and (3), we have, ⎛⎞Lx2 Lxy ⎜⎟10−−22 ⎜⎟rr rr 1 ⎜⎟Lxy Ly2 εμij== ij −10, − (4) L ⎜⎟22 1− ⎜⎟rr rr r ⎜⎟001 ⎜⎟ ⎝⎠ for the transformation media to mimic the black hole system, with its principal values of the permittivity and permeability tensors in circular cylindrical coordinates as, L εμ==1, εμεμ ====− (1 )−1 . (5) rrθθ zz r For a 3D black hole system, with similar calculations, the parameters should be, L εμ==1, εμεμ ====− (1 )−1 , (6) rr θθϕϕ r in spherical coordinates. In this letter, we shall only consider the transverse electric (TE) polarized cases in two dimensions (2D) for simplicity. As the parameters diverge when r approaches the event horizon L and the problem cannot be studied analytically, we shall have to do some truncations to tackle the singularity so that the problem can be studied numerically. It would be wise to choose the following material parameters, L μμε= 1,==− (11 )−1 ,rL > , (7a) rzθ r L μμε= 1,==− (11 )−1 (1 +irL ), 0 << , (7b) rzθ L for the black hole system, where L1 is a slightly smaller number than L (here we set L1 = 0.9L so that the largest values of μθ and ε z are 10 when rL= ). All the light should be absorbed when they hit the event horizon ideally. Thereby we choose the above impedance-matched absorbing core [13] (Eq. (7b), μrz=1,μεθ ==+ 10 10i ) to approximate the region inside the event horizon. Most of the light will be absorbed by the core when they reach the event horizon and little scatterings should be caused. It is noted that the material parameters in Eq. (7) can be implemented using the same method as that in the first TE reduced cloak [3]. The only difference is that, the TE cloak takes a μθ =1 [3] while the black hole here uses a μr =1. Therefore during the implementation of the black hole, the normal directions of the split-ring resonators [3] should be along the angular directions. 3. Simulation results For a real black hole system there is a photon sphere (here we shall call it the “photon cylinder” with respect to the circular cylindrical coordinate used in Eq. (7)) where the gravity is so strong to force the photons to orbit. The radius of the sphere (or cylinder) should be 1.5 times of the Schwarzschild radius. In Fig. 1 (a), we plot the emitting rays of a point source when it is on the photon sphere (1.5L1 , 0) of the real black hole.
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